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Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
DOTS AND DASHES.

Secretary Fairchild has recommended that
the salary of the assistant treasurer at San
Francisco be increased to $1,000 per annum
and the salaries Of the assistant treasurers at
Chicago, New Orleans and st. Louis 10 S. 600
each.
James Mullen, late candidate for governor
of New Mexico, was fatally shot by The acct
dental discharge Of revolver at Silver City,
n. VI.
The annual repu TT Of the secretary Of the
treasury shows that the receipts of the gov
ernHirnt for the last fiscal year were $751;
AS, 271, and tine expenditures S3l5, S35, 42S
There was an increase In the receipts of S34-
! g63, j9D over those of the preceding year, and
the expenditures were increased Ivy SIS, 49, :
OH. The revenues for the present year, are
estimated at 1888 900, go aud the expenditures
at 1916 Sl7,1SJ. The secretary advises re-
duction of the customs duties on tue lines
suggested in the presidents message.
The school revenue Of Indiana for the last
year amounted to SO 400, $40. The number of
children enrolled was 100 529-an increase Of
Is, AS over the preceding year.
Twenty thousand passengers from the east
arrived in California over the various trans
continental roads during the month Of No
Yember.
The Pacific branch of the National Home
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers will be located
at Santa Monica, Los Angeles county, Califor-
MIA.
Two men were killed and five Others injured
by the burning of four-rnill at Portsmouth,
Ohio.
Germany, Austria, and Italy have agreed to
raise their ministers in Spain to the rank Of
ambassadors, and it is thought that England
will follow their example.
Tie next annual meeting OF the Union Vet
eran legion will be held in Youngstown, o.,
February %
Heavy rains are reported throughout south
ern Texas, breaking the drought and saving
the wheat crop.
The attorney general of Nova Scotia has
written long letter in favor Of reciprocity
between the United States and Canada
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
The decentralization Laws,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Senator Stanford
will introduce bill in congress at the first
opportunity to amend the naturalization
laws so as to provide that no person immi-
grating from foreign country to the United
States can become citizen until after a
residence of twenty-one years in the land
of his adoption. Mr.. Stanford thinks that
men of foreign birth should pass through
the same period of probation before becom-
ing citizens as is exacted of the sons of
American birth. No male born in this
country can be voter until he has reached
the aye of twsnty-one years, but foreigners,
who may be unable to either speak or write
the English language, can come to the
United States under existing laws, and after
five years residence become voters and citi-
zens, having made the necessary previous
deelarAtiOna
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17

dent shall from time 10 time z ieraan.
Vress information % the slate AZ 1'"s nv.
II has been the custom 81 the cx,....s ass
compliance with tins provision. Al a~ =
exhibit 10 the congress, NJ the nreniass A"sa
session, the general condition Of M q y
aud 10 detail, With suns partleul.,,..a ei7
operations OF the different executive v
ments. II would be especially nrresss sPait
follow this course AZ the present tins ~ .
call attention 20 tue valuable asron,,,i. y
uents 0t these departments during M ~. y
cal year. but l sIn 80 much irnprssss ~ y
tile paramount importance Of Ne snf sfa
which this communication has thus ~ y .
devoted that | shall fofcgO the sdtls,.s ~
any other topic. and only urgv upon s.'s
msdiste consideration tie state N thsae, "a
as shOSn In the present ennditlon ~
treasury anu our general fiscal sltunli,,' ~
which every rleiEsat Of our safety ARA ~
peIity depends. ~
The reports OF the heads OF depart,...
Witch will be submitted, contain ftill M
hfisil Information touching the lTansaetia, !
bnslilrps insFusted to them, and steb ~ ~
mendati01s relating 10 Legislation M ~ -
lie interests ~ they deem advisable ~
for thesn reports and recommendation n
deliberate examination and action OF liz ~
latiYe branch Ot the government.
There are OIneT subjects moi embraced q.
departmental report demanding legls,,'s
consideration, and which SHOULD ~ yl,5 !,
submit some Of them, however, have 4,
earnestly presented Ia previous message. ~
as to them bsu lsaEe 10 repeat prior rev
meudatiOhs.
As the Law makes no provision far ssy !.
port from the department III state. NJ
history Of that important department, taeeiD
with UihrT matters which II NAV herestls,
deemed essential "a commend 10 the alisT,ls
OF the congress, NAV furnish He ocsssiJs n
4 future communication.
GROVER CLEygtAsn
WasnISGtoN. ID. G., Dec. d
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
Nominations.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The president
has sent the following nominations to the
senate; Lucius Q. 9. Lamar, of Missis-
sippi, to be associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States; William F.
Villas, OF Wisconsin, to be secretary of the
interior; Don NJ. Dickinson, of Michigan,
to be postmaster general; Charles s. Fair.
child, OF New York, to be assistant secre-
tary Of state; Isaac II. Maynard, of New
York, to be assistant secretary Of the treas
urY sigOurney Butler, of Massachusetts, to
he second comptroller of the treasury;
James W, Hyatt, Of Connecticut, to be
treasurer Of the United States.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17

In the house this morning Mills, of
Texas, offered resolution directing the
speaker to appoint committee on rules,
accounts, enrolled bills and mileage, each
TO consist of the same number of members
rs provided for in the rules Of the Forty
ninth congress, and referring rules of that
congress to the committee on rules, when
appointed Adopted.
Cox, of New York, chairman of the COM
mittee to inform the president of the
organization of the house, reported that
the committee had performed its duty and
that the president would communicate
with the house forthwith.
A number of amendments to the rules
were submitted, to be referred to the COM
mittee on rules, when appointed.
At 1920 q recess was taken for twenty
minutes, and the time subsequently ex-
tended to 10 O'Clock. At the expiration
of the recess, Mr.. Pruden, the presidents
private secretary, appeared at the bar OF
the house with the presidents annual mes
sage, and its reading was Immediately
begun.
After the reading of the message an adj
journment was taken until Thursday.
The caucus committees Of both parties in
the senate held meetings this morning and
began their work of arranging representa-
tion upon the regular and standing COM
mittees of the senate.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
Good For Paper and Reader.

Washington special: Congressman
McShane called at the postofice depart
ment to-day and had an interview with
the officials relative to the order prohib-
iting newspapers from mailing their
papers before passing through the post
office. He explained that the order was
particularly onerous upon the newspa-
pers of Omaha, where the early morning
mail closes at 4:30, although the train
does not leaye until SIT. He asked
that some plan be devised whereby the
mails could be weighed at the trains as
was formerly done, or that some other
plan equally as good be substituted.
Mr.. McShane was successful in his mis-
sion, and the department. order will be
so far modified as to permit the pub
fishers to welgh their papers in their of
fees, and to furnish sworn statements of
weight to the postmaster on which post
age shall be paid. This order will prob
ably be sent out Immediately.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
Pacific Railroad Matters.

Washington special: Congressman
Crisp, of Georgia, who had the most to
do in the last congress with the action
upon the bill to extend the Indebtedness
of the Pacific railroads, and who will
probably be the chairman of that com
mittee in this congress- said that the re-
port and recommendations of the special
committee that investigated the affairs
of the Pacifics during the past summer
would influence whatever legislation
congress would likely make ut this SEES
sion. He said that the attorney general
had the report of thecommittee in hand
with view to formulating suggestions
to congress, and that the report was cx-
pected to be made public next week. "If
nothing better is recommended, said
Mr.. Crisp. 81 presume congress will take
mp the bill which the committee report
ed last winter and pass it. ?
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
Capital Notes,

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-secretary Fair
child has recommended that the salaries Of
the assistant United States treasurers at
Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco be
increased TO So, 600 each.
The wool growers and dealers adopted
resolutions to-day protesting against the
present classification of wool by railroads
as unjust, aud requesting them to re-cIas-
sity at lower RATES.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec. I'm the senate
this morning after the presentation OF vari-
GUS communications from heads of depart
ments and the court of claims, Senator
Cullom remarked that the rule was when
bills are introduced before committees are
appointed, to have such bills laid on the
table and that created unnecessary work.
He therefore moved thatIthe senate adjourn,
but he withdrew his motion temporarily to
permit Senator Plumb to offer a resolution
calling upon the commissioner of agricul-
tnre for information as to whether any per-
son in the employment of that department
making experiments as to the manufacture
of sugar and sorghum had obtained or
applied for patent or patents connected
with such manufacture and growing out Of
such experiments. The resolution was
adopted. Senator Farwell asked his
colleague to withdraw his motion so as to
allow him to introduce bill to perpetuate
The national bank system. Senator Gallon
declined and at 1920 o'clock the senate
adjourned.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
A 1,emnnrnnce Man.

Yes. nv uncle lived TO he ITO Va =,
old and was gu TO energetic % y
last"
And venture 10 say TINT 20 NAM
total nbsIainer, have known i0s
very old people and know 'l,a .ar,,.
gevity Is impossible without ,g"f
ance. What caused his death ,.ads
'Delirinm lrUmens. - Aey'
State Journni.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
CONGRESS.
work Being Done From Day 60 Da !,
im Both Houses.
The Reua3a


The Senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-After the read
ing of the journal in the senate to-day the
presiding officer asked whether it was the
pleasure of the senate to proceed with the
usual morning business.
Senator Harris suggested that bills and
memorials might be introduced and re-
ferred.
Senator Hoar opposed the proposition,
stating that it was an ancient custom of the
senate not to enter upon any ordinary bust
ness until after bearing the communication
from the president at the beginning of the
session. That it was mark of respect due
from the legislative department of the gov
eminent to the executive. He therefore
moved a recess for an hour.
The motion agreed TO.
After the recess had been extended for a
quarter of an hour longer, Morrill, reported
that the joint committee appointed to wait
upon the president had performed its duty.
and been informed that the president
would Immediately communicate with con-
gress in writing. Thereupon several mess
ages were presented by the presidents
private secretary.
McCook, secretary of the senate, COM
menced reading the presidents message,
which was finished at 1 80, after which an
adjournment was taken.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17

"say, hub, I hear your folks are e.. M
have conversation club NJ your lo's, ne
winter" yep; we got one" "Mn. NJ
lembersw HNla and IA. 49, ms
enveisfiaEz ~ mA ~ w.
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Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
Congrsssmen Polled.

New York special: The result of the
Worlds expedition to Washington yes.
terday to interview con gressmen and sen,
ators regarding President CleyeIand's
message is as follows:
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
The Earthouake ait Bavisne.

NOGALEs, A. T., Dec. "a gentleman
writing from the scene of the recent earth
quakes at Bayispe, says the entire town
has been destroyed and many persons
killed. Earthquakes have been Of daily
occurrence, except during an interval of
two weeks, during which time the Icople
built temporary shantIes of refuge ON the
hill. Since the cessation some Adobe
houses have been erected, but they were
soon destroyed. People are wild with ter
Tor. The provisions and supplies provided
by the state and private sources are ex-
hausted, and the entire vicinity is desti-
tute, and unless aid is furnished soon they
may starye. The streams opened by the
first great shocks are still flowing, but the
continued shocks and the terror of the peo-
pie prevent utilization of the abundance Of
water for raising crops.
HOLIDAY RATES OF THE WA
BASH For the holidays, the Wabash
Western Railway Company will sell ex-
cursion tickets from all stations to
points within 200 miles at one and one
third fare for the round trip. These
tickets will he on sale Saturday, Sun
day and Monday, Dec. gath, 18th and
3Gth and Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day, Dec. Dist and January 1st and 2nd.
Tickets good going on date Of sale;
GOOD returning mp to and including
Tuesday, January Sd, 1888. For further
particulars apply to the nearest ticket
agent of the Wabash Western Railway
On
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-11-24
Caused by Shaking Hands,

In speaking with an old army officer on
the subject Of the frequent Indian out
breaks within the past few years, he adj
vanced n singular theory, which, to his
mind, at least, accounted satisfactorily
for much that has heretofore seemed in
applicable. Said my friend: ''In old
times, when it VAS necessary to prove the
assent to u written contract of persons
who could neither read nor write, this
was done by atiiXing their seals. When
the Indian makes q contract he does so by
word of mouth, sealing the contract with
that solemnity which, to n redskin, means
all things-he shakes hands upon it. This
is custom with the Indian which is re-
served exclusively to ratify his contract,
and never, as wit h us, in Salutation.
"When an occasion of Importance de-
mands that the chiefs shall come to Wash
ington, before starting they represent to
their tribes the business in hand, and state
that they will so and see the Great Father,
with whom they will enter into treaty.
Arrived in Washington, an interpreter
presents their case to the president, who,
in good will to show that he is not above
giving kind reception to the humblest
man in the country, advances and proffers
his hand. The chiefs are delighted, and
return to their tribes, setting forth that
the Great Father has acceded to their
wishes, because, after hearing the case, he
shook hands with them. If, after the ex-
ecution Of q contract in the presence of
witnesses subsequently sworn to and re-
corded, we should then break it so that a
suit in court would he the only remedy to
the party injured thereby, the situation
would not be more serious here, while the
president shakes hands with an Indian
who aftcrwarl does not get or enjoy what
he understood would be given by that act
of handshalling. All of which goes to
prove, in conclusion, that the president
should never shake hands with an In
dian. "-Washington Letter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-11-24

My reverie is broken by touch on the
shoulder, and looking round I find the
good natured captain, who says: "Would
you like so so down with me? inspect
the engines every day" We descend to
the main deck, and by an iron door enter
the engine compartment. A bunch of
cotton waste is placed in each hand as q
protection against the omnipresent oil.
Carefully we descend the iron stairs, keep
ing o firm hold of the balustrade, lest q
sudden lurch of the ship should precipi-
tate us among the great levers and cranks
that weave with relentless speed Like
the huge monsters of nightmare, they
would grind their teeth and tear their vic
tim limb from limb. At every stroke of
the piston a cold shower bath thrown
upon the bearings prevents the masses of
metal from becoming heated.
Through a dim alley in the hold runs
the steel shaft, extending from engine to
screw, each of whose sixty revolutions q
minute drives the enormous iron ship near
ly thirty feet ahead in the sea. Here in O
side room are the dynamos for electric
lights of the incandeScent arc pattern dis
tributed throughout the ship
''Be careful" says the captain as we
enter dark passage between the hot fur
naces and moment later emerge into the
glare Of open fire doors. Stokers stripped
to the waist, smeared with coal dust and
streaked with sweat, are working furi-
ously. Out they drag the burning Goals
that hiss as they drop on the flooded graf
ings. In they thrust the fiery giants
food and with crash of closing doors it
is suddenly dark. Back by the hot pass
age and staircase we regain the deck. 1t
seems weird to suddenly lose the tumult
of the engine and find ourselves in the
cold night air, with misty stars overhead
and wind moaning in the cordage.-Albert
II. Munsen in Outing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-11-24
Emerson,s Interest in His Children,

Emerson gave much more of his time
and thought to his children, from their in
fancy, than was usual with busy fathers
in New England forty years ago, or is,
perhaps, now. 'There is nothing Che
writes in his iouruaD that is not Of the
greatest interest in the nursery Every
tear and every smile deserves history, TO
say nothing of the stamping and scream
ing;" and he kept a record of their child
ish doings end sayings, in which these
''pretty oracles" are chronicled like the
anecdotes OF Plutarch. Their play and
their work, their companions and their
lessons, their out OF door rambles and
their home occupations, were objects of
his constant care. The homo discipline
was never neglected, though it was en-
forced by the gcntiest methods. The be-
ginning Of childish quarrel, outbursts
Of petulance and Stiffness, were ayerted
by requests to run into the study and see
II the stove door was shut, or to go to the
front gate and look at the clouds for q
minute, -Cabot's Memoir Of Emerson.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-11-24
A New Use for Annles.

A new use for apples has been discov-
cred which may interest the drinkers of
champagne and Rhine wines. A promi-
nent apple grower of the eastern part Of
Rensselaer, county has for several years
past been running large evaporation on
what are known as .'cider apples" a
small, gnarly variety which the farmers
usually consign to cider mills. These ma
chimes slice the apples, skin, core and all,
very thin. These thin slices are then
bleached white by the use of sulphur
fumes.
When thoroughly dry the evaporated
apples arc put into sugar barrels and
packed as tight as they can be pressed, so
that a single barrel will hold 200 pounds,
or twenty bushels of apples. These are
then shipped to New York for expectation
to Germany. where they are ground up
for the manufacture OF what is known as
cider, and it is generally understood that
much of it enters into the composition of
champagne, Rhine and other wines. It is
said that when these evaporated apples
are cut up and properly ''doctored" the
finest cider is produced. Last year more
than two car loads Of dried apples were
sent from one station alone ON the Leba-
non Springs railroad.-Albany Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-11-24
As Seen in Mexico.

A traveller who has visited the various
states and territories of Mexico presents
condensed view of his observations.
Nothing could be more sententious and
epigrammatic than the style in which the
people of the several states are described.
He found in Yucatan, farmers; Vera
Cruz, merchants and travellers; Tabasco,
plantation owners; Federal District, poll
ticians and soldiers; Tlaxcala, ignorant
people; Chiapas, Indians; OaXaca, fanat-
les; Durango, mule drivers; Queretaro,
priests; Morelos, fruit farmers; GUIANA
juato, liberals; San Luis Potosi, wealthy
people; Mexico, conservatives; Tamauli-
pas, sick people; Chihuahua, savages; ia
lisco, potters; Zacatecas, miners; Nueva
Leon, Yankees; Lower California, adven-
turers; Colima, Germans; Aguascalientes,
government clerks; Sinaloa, fishermen;
Guerrero, negroes; Sonora, horsemen;
Coahuila, poor people; Topic, mountain
GERS; Hidalgo, Protestants and English
Boston Traveller.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-11-24
Lenses Made of Ice,

The London correspondent of lie Mon
iteur de Ia Photographic writes to that
journal that in the middle Of the winter
which has just elapsed a student made a
lens Of ice, with which he Lit the pipes of
some of the skaters on the Serpentine by
means of the solar rays, an experiment,
he says, which was first performed in the
polar regions by DR.. Scoresby to the great
establishment of the sailors, for they could
not understand why the ice did not freeze
the beams of the sun. We may remark
that Professor Tyndall at times would set
flre, at the Royal Institution, to little
heap of gunpowder with rays from the
electric arc concentrated upon the powder
by means OF lens of ice. His explana-
ton was that although ice absorbs rays Of
certain wave lengths, and is gradually
melted thereby, other waves it does not
absorb, and these latter produce the heat
ING eject IT the foe1aqf the lens \ 4